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Awakening - Rabbi Gerzi - Shiur 17

Morality Before Revelation Before Divine revelation, there must be morality. Derech eretz comes before Torah. In this talk, Rabbi Gerzi explores the foundational idea that our way of being must precede higher spiritual insight. To truly ask meaningful questions, we must first understand our context—where we are coming from and the internal state we bring into the moment. Much of our experience is shaped by our levushim, the outer garments—habits, identities, emotional patterns—that color how we sense and interpret reality. This framework applies everywhere in life. The work is to realign ourselves and learn to live from the neshama, our higher sense of place and purpose. When we believe in the process of building ourselves, something shifts. We feel better, we grow, and we adopt a mentality that recognizes how deeply the individual affects the whole. Happiness is not the goal—it is the way of being that supports growth. What truly matters is the ongoing work of upgrading ourselves. There was—and still is—freedom built into creation. Although we are individuals, we are remarkably similar in how we function. Alignment itself is a form of teshuva. When we step out of unconscious patterns and relate differently to the reality in front of us, change happens—not only within us, but within the collective as well. This talk invites a return to moral grounding, inner alignment, and conscious growth as the foundation for meaningful spiritual life. Recorded in Bei Dovid on January 29th.